This is how lots of protests work, and they get the same criticism. If one hundred thousand people decide to stop traffic in new york or disrupt the air port i

This is how lots of protests work, and they get the same criticism. If one hundred thousand people decide to stop traffic in new york or disrupt the air port in London these are a tiny fraction of citizens (they don't have to be citizens), unelected with no rules. They all might have different ideas about why they are there and it may be impossible for anyone to lead them to stop. There may be some inherently bad things about mobs, but there is nothing inherently good about them. You could have hundreds of thousands take to the street in support of fascism just as easily as freedom of information. Worrisome as they are though, chaotic mass protests seem to be an important part of the democratic process.